By early 2004 it said Apex owed it more than half a billion dollars.
And it says it's willing to spend half a billion dollars on marketing to encourage sales.
Eventually, it earned close to half a billion dollars worldwide, and four Academy Awards.
Half a billion dollars in cash now underpins his closely held development company, Related Group.
According to Bloomberg News, nearly half a billion dollars has been lavished on it.
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For one thing, this study alone will likely cost about a half a BILLION dollars.
The top ten Wall Street firms will spend half a billion dollars to upgrade their disaster-recovery capabilities.
You'll save a half a billion dollars over 10 years and create tens of thousands of jobs.
And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes.
However, the cost of the phase 3 program is on the order of a half a billion dollars.
Taxpayers are on the hook for more than half a billion dollars after the company filed for bankruptcy.
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Tellme raised half a billion dollars from Jim Barksdale, Benchmark and all the smart Valley guys at the time.
And leaving about half a billion dollars on the table in the process.
Simple: He stands to make half a billion dollars if Microsoft acquires Yahoo!
The top ten Wall Street firms will spend half a billion dollars in total to upgrade their disaster-recovery capabilities.
The 13 artworks are worth on the order of half a billion dollars.
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Half a billion dollars meant for science experiments on board the station have already been siphoned off for construction instead.
Lei has raised over half a billion dollars in capital but appears in no hurry to take the company public.
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They also found in one recent year the SSA paid out as much as half a billion dollars to claimants attorneys.
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Barksdale, with 10, 000 military and civilian personnel on base, is estimated to generate half a billion dollars in local economic benefits annually.
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Despite spending nearly half a billion dollars to lock up pitchers C.
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She is worth half a billion dollars, has no heirs and hasn't been seen in public for more than half a century.
The authorities spend half a billion dollars each year cleaning up soil that's been washed into the water when rainwater courses down denuded slopes.
The Spitzer pact forces Wall Street to spend almost half a billion dollars over five years for research deemed independent by yet more overseers.
Dubai's Emaar Properties, which is building the world's tallest tower in Dubai, has invested more than half a billion dollars in an Indian joint venture.
Recently, Texas businesses signed six agreements worth half a billion dollars in exports to China, including cotton, crystalline silicon solar cells and photovoltaic generation systems.
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But Sweeney and others decided the service would eschew ads--a source of half a billion dollars in annual revenue for Nick at the time--to win over parents.
"Corey's films have earned the industry over a half a billion dollars, and his work remains an inspiration to young artists worldwide, " Feldman told the TMZ website.
No one expects Magic Johnson to offer proof of the Riemann hypothesis anytime soon, yet his wealth is estimated to be half a billion dollars.
Corsair, with half a billion dollars in annual revenue, has built an excellent reputation for designing and manufacturing innovative, high-performance components and peripherals for PC enthusiasts and gamers.
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